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Hey guy's
I am new here. Driving a 540i (2006) want te be in contact for the next meeting in Amsterdam.

Haroen

greycoopers

Hi Heroen,

Welcome to the forum! I will post the dates for the next meeting in this topic.
Will be nice to see more e60's there!

See you soon!

Greets Peter

@mr

Here the pica's of last nights and this evenings mods. I was feeling creative

First a quick and simple one:
As I hate the ipod running through the glove compartment ( a simple sleeve and hot-glue did the trick):


And then up to the more labor intensive stuff.
From ashtray holder to ipod dock:
The rough material:


Some cutting out done:



Now here the apple universal dock fits exactly. I had to hot-glue it into place as
I did not have double sticking tape. (both are easy to remove anyway).


In the car with ashtray closed:


And open:


Front look:


And from the side:


I still need to construct a face plate to cover most of the white stuff. I left the dock low enough to
allow a cover to be inserted without the need to alter the current construction. Nor sure yet if it will
be alu, carbon, plastic or leather).
This now plays the ipod movies on the nav screen via the modmynav MM interface.

greycoopers

Wouzerz... Nice going! Doesn't the ipod fall out of the socket when cornering?

Looks great!!

I went to the drift and slide meet today Did some nice powerslides on the wet track... That was awesome
There were a couple of people taking pics and filming... I'm leaving for Spain in the morning, and will try to upload from the poolside. If not, well...I'll be back in two weeks

@mr

Not when I corner slowly.
This setup is for watching video's though, so I will not be driving that much with the iPod in. For music I have the other one in the glove compartment.
It is not drift proof.. that is what I know
Have a good holiday.

Ar.

Dutch 530i

Are you having to upgrade the latest software everytime you add something new?
Would love to use an ipod in the car.

@mr

Nope.. I just wanted it to try to speed up the iDrive responsiveness with large playlists.
In general it was working on the '06 software as well. for the iPod interface,
you need to have your car with either a CD Changer, or have it coded for a CD changer.
(OEM, but I think this would also apply for the Dension solutions-- audio)
For the MM interface, this one is transparent to the car, and only using the LCD for output.
Operation of the equipment with the MM interface I have from modmynav is not via the iDrive
menu, whereas the OEM iPod interface let you control the iPod via the iDrive.

Dutch 530i

I do have a cd changer on my 06' car. So what do you think I would need to get an ipod working?

greycoopers

For all the woosies who didn't dare to come drifting...you missed out big time

Definitly come next time!!

Dutch 530i

Nice shot! Looks low!!